Posted on 05/02/2002 8:52:50 AM PDT by RCW2001
Army to supply 'morning after' pill to female soldiers
The IDF is to issue the "morning after" pill Postinor 2 to female soldiers at a subsidized cost.
According to the IDF weekly Bamahane, the pill would be prescribed to soldiers at their unit clinic by IDF gynecological officers and gynecological specialist.
The article quoted the head of the women's health department of the Woman's Adviser to the Chief of General Staff Division Maj. Dr. Einat Elran as saying the pill was effective within the first 72 hours after having unprotected intercourse.
The Health Ministry has allowed the pill to be available over the counter since March. But until now, female soldiers were given permission to purchase the pill from civilian pharmacies with their own money.
The hormonal drug, levonorgestrel, prevents a fertilized ovum from implanting itself in the uterus by changing the lining (a chemical mechanism with the same function as the mechanical intrauterine device).
The IDF is examining the possibility of purchasing the pill in bulk to be distributed at regional command centers and other large units at a subsidized price, the weekly said.
Furthermore, the weekly said the IDF was examining the possibility of reducing the price of birth control pills available to all female soldiers. Today, any soldier wishing to get the pill needed to purchase it in a civilian pharmacy with a prescription issued by an IDF gynecologist.
The IDF's unspoken policy is to allow a female solider to undergo one abortion during her military service, but she is dismissed if she gets pregnant again.
Postinor 2 is considered safe and effective when taken according to instructions, but it can cause side effects such as stomach pain, headache, nausea, tiredness, and vomiting. Doctors warn that Postinor 2 should not be taken on a regular basis, as this can result in ovarian cysts and disruption of menstrual periods.
Thus the "morning after" pill is meant for cases in which an unwanted pregnancy could result from unprotected sex, including the failure of a condom
The name of the fetus murdering drug is RU-486
Are you for '86'-ing innocent babies?
Great...more sick call slips to fill out.
Otherwise known as a chemical abortion. Lovely.
It's not the killing, it's the carelessness.
Most Americans have the brains of smooth green peas and therefore have no problems whatsoever demanding as a "right' the Population Control the government was going to impose on them anyway. They're too stupid to realize, even, that it's the GOP -- not the Democrats -- who've made abortion a national policy at home and abroad.
As stated by Kissinger in his 1974 NSSM-200 (signed by him for Nixon and, as NSDM-314, signed by Scowcroft for Ford), no nation has ever had a successful population control program without legal abortion. "Abortion is VITAL to the solution" of population control at home and abroad.
Israel was founded by Soviet terrorists and wholly self-interested Western globalist elite. It's no wonder that Israel has more in common with soulless capitalist and communist totalitarian than men of God where the dignity of all human life is concerned.
If you are going to make moronic, hyperbolic statements such as those don't waste my time by responding to me.
This was shortsighted of me, of course.
Men of Science -- who have every appreciation for the Objective Truths about Conception -- generally do not engage in the wholly subjective Personal Interpretations of when life begins.
(This being on the reasons the Supreme Court made such a fuss about recognizing that even religious couldn't agree ... some preferring this Scripture passage and others preferring another.)
The fact are plain ... the moment the zona pellucida forms, the rights to privacy and property have been asserted by what all men know is a unique, irreplaceable human life that -- barring disruption, imprisonment in a tank of liquid nitrogen, or forcible death by chemicals, blade or suction -- will live until its natural death.
A natural death being something to which all men are entitled.
You would think having been on the receiving end of forced sterilizations, genocide and the less "kinder and gentler" forms of population control, the Jews would be more hip to this.
I do not believe the UN or terrorists to be doing -- ever -- the work of God.
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